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by bildung 6y ago
Yes, daily numbers are almost completely meaningless. We don't have to wait multiple years to infer meaning from the numbers, though. If countries are very similar, had their infections at the same time, but now have a 800% difference
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by bildung 6y ago
That's why I compared to Denmark and Norway: Two countries with comparable wealth, healthcare systems and similar (i.e. social democratic in a wider sense) approaches to societal problems - and here the differences in deaths are quite
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by bildung 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, EuroMomo is showing a distinct rise in excess deaths compared to previous years?
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by bildung 6y ago
Have you looked at the actual numbers? Sweden is at 6th place in deaths per capita in the world ranking. It has 4 times the deaths per capita than Denmark, and 8 times more than Norway.
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by bildung 6y ago
I will be very surprised if Huawei would be found guilty of anything. The company plays an important role in actually defining the 5G standard as a member of 3GPP, and holds 3 times the number of 5G patents than Qualcomm. I mean, look at th
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by bildung 6y ago
To add to that, the Kirin 710A that will get produced by SMIC will presumably be very similar to the Kirin 710 from 2018, produced by TSMC with its 16nm/12nm process, so performance-wise this will probably be the same chip but from a d
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by bildung 6y ago
Perhaps this isn't a conspiracy but actual mainstream political thought in Barcelona? The city has a very rich leftist history, being one of the centers of Spanish anarchism during the civil war, for example. > The delete posts a
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by bildung 6y ago
That wouldn't even be legal in Germany (and I guess the EU), pricing has to be clearly labelled, and additionally has to have a price per common unit if the package has a different size (e.g. a 3.5l bottle of detergent would show €&#x2
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by bildung 6y ago
You're correct regarding Amazon's revenue, I somehow got the 2014 data, sorry. I'm actually not quite sure what you mean with the "global innovations" part, though, could you expand on that? What is it that makes e.
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by bildung 6y ago
It's worth noting that those companies have trillion dollar stock valuation, but by far less actual revenue. Average revenue per year of these companies is "just" 159 billions. Amazon has had a revenue of 88 billion. German c
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by bildung 6y ago
For breaking the veil of limited liability in German law, the managing director has to act in negligence/ gross negligence.
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by bildung 6y ago
From TFA: "was allegedly leaked onto the anonymous forum 4chan"
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by bildung 6y ago
> This is how things were a few hundred years ago.
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by bildung 6y ago
They trust the exchanges, which is where most people buy their coins - and they don't actually own coins, they own entries in the database of the exchange. Actual OTC purchases of bitcoin are negligible in comparison and don't p
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by bildung 6y ago
If that were the case, why can a16z profit from that?
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by bildung 6y ago
That is just meaningless marketingspeak, and obviously wrong. Blockchains are just data, so at most "spreadsheets that can make commitments". And the latter part is also wrong, as computers are controlled by silicon logic in exact
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by bildung 7y ago
You're right! Wrong link, and I can't find the correct one on twitter. But he also said it elsewhere, like in this letter to tesla employees: https://electrek.co/2020/03/17/elon-musk-tesla-coronaviru
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by bildung 7y ago
"US is still a little behind" is a bit too understated I'd say - the US measures haven't even managed to make the number of active cases stop growing. They are shrinking in Germany since about the beginning of april.
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by bildung 7y ago
> And he might still be right. The US already has over 1M cases, so 0.3%?
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by bildung 7y ago
He also implied there won't be more than 0.1% of the US population infected overall, https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239755145233289217
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by bildung 7y ago
I also think the main differences are rooted in the different countries the commenters come from. Many of the the features commenters in the US seem to value in amazon are mandated by law e.g. in Germany, and thus are provided by all domest
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by bildung 7y ago
Most countries currently get loans for about zero or actual negative interest - while inflation is above zero. States can essentially borrow for more than free: Get loans for a billion, wait 10 years at 2% inflation and it's only 800M
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by bildung 7y ago
That metaphor sounds nice but conjurs the wrong image. The vaccine could very well be worse than a Covid infection, i.e. you grab your shield, but that newsly invented shield has spikes on the inside.
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by bildung 7y ago
It's not so much about poverty per se but about inequality - and there definitely is a correlation between blue collar crime and inequality: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/06/07/the-st
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by bildung 7y ago
Your question for examples of severe deflation is a bit like questioning the social distancing measures against COVID-19: If the policies work, it looks like they are useless - after all, deflation never really happens, right? The US had ma
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by bildung 7y ago
The absolute population should only start to play a role once a significant part of the population is or has been infected. In all other cases the population density should be the only invariant factor that matters for the different infec
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by bildung 7y ago
What do you think about Ciscos security history? They have had literally hundreds of remote code execution vulnerabilities. https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-16/C... (sort by severity, right
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by bildung 7y ago
If you look at the actual numbers, the northern European countries are actually better at implementing the promises of a democratic capitalist society: Higher median income, higher life expectancy, higher rankings in Happiness indices like
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by bildung 7y ago
> lethal to those at the medical fringes (eg. 99% of cases in Italy have existing health problems The most common existing health problems from the study[0]: * Diabetes - 29% of the US population affected * Hypertension - 45% of the U
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by bildung 7y ago
Are these included in the count of the other countries? This is exactly what I mean: Without the same definitions for all countries, the numbers per se are not really comparable.

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